Of course... That was a dumb question. On May 24, 2008, at 5:16 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > We have groups and permissions because the User model is meant for all > users, not just trusted users. > > On May 23, 3:49 pm, "Patrick J. Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> On Thu, 22 May 2008 09:32:40 -0700, jonknee wrote: >>> On May 21, 9:33 pm, "James Bennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>> Well, newforms-admin is being written to make the HttpRequest >>>> object >>>> available as an argument to the various ModelAdmin methods, which >>>> means >>>> that when you set up your own custom admin you can do pretty much >>>> anything you want. >> >>>> Which will make a lot of people happy, and let them go right on >>>> building workflows that don't make a lot of sense (if somebody's a >>>> trusted administrator, how come you don't trust them to fill in a >>>> field >>>> properly?). >> >>> I agree with you in theory, but it has some merit in practice. If >>> you >>> have a lot of admins (let's say 20+), selecting through a large >>> list of >>> users is time consuming and error prone. I'm OK with writing custom >>> views for edge cases though. >> >> Agree in theory as well, but practice is almost always different. No >> bigger client will agree with "they're trusted" argument, none of my >> clients do, and I end up creating separate, custom-built admin >> interfaces >> for this group and that group of users. >> >> Admin is just a contrib app, made for a specific use-case, so I'm not >> complaining, and I understand the MVC separation of concerns, but I >> secretly wish that there was a straightforward, optimized and >> documented >> way of dealing with this very common need for a model instance to >> know >> who's messing with it. This probably doesn't belong in the model, >> but for >> now, I'll stick with threadlocals.get_current_user() until I take a >> closer look at using newforms-admin. > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
